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A review by dantastic
Black Science, Vol. 1: How to Fall Forever by Rick Remender
2.0
Grant McKay and his Anarchist League of Scientists build a device called The Pillar and punched a hole into another universe, only to have a saboteur strike and damage the machine. Will they ever find their way back home?
Black Science is a Stargate/Sliders/Land of the Lost kind of comic. While that sounds great, I was fairly disappointed.
All the winning ingredients are here, concept-wise. Too bad none of the characters are anything special. I also didn't care for the art very much. I liked the core concept quite a bit and there were some elements that I liked but it ultimately didn't do it for me. The story felt like too much, too soon, like Remender was trying to cram in as much stuff as he could. It kind of felt like a Grant Morrison book where he throws a thousand barely developed ideas at you when it would have been fine to just get three or four coherent ones.
I think if a different artist had been used or things were slowed down a bit, I would have liked it more. Not my cup of tea but I won't begrudge anyone who enjoys it. Two stars.
Last thing - Why would a fish woman have boobs?
Black Science is a Stargate/Sliders/Land of the Lost kind of comic. While that sounds great, I was fairly disappointed.
All the winning ingredients are here, concept-wise. Too bad none of the characters are anything special. I also didn't care for the art very much. I liked the core concept quite a bit and there were some elements that I liked but it ultimately didn't do it for me. The story felt like too much, too soon, like Remender was trying to cram in as much stuff as he could. It kind of felt like a Grant Morrison book where he throws a thousand barely developed ideas at you when it would have been fine to just get three or four coherent ones.
I think if a different artist had been used or things were slowed down a bit, I would have liked it more. Not my cup of tea but I won't begrudge anyone who enjoys it. Two stars.
Last thing - Why would a fish woman have boobs?